Josef matejec



-(No Model.) J. 'MATEJEC.

. GLOVE PUNCH.

No. 423,526. Patented Mar. 18, 1890.-

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JOSEF MATEJEO, or PRAGUE, BOHEMIA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

GLOVE-PUNCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,526, dated March 18, 1890.

Application filed June 20, 1889.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, J OSEF MATEJEC, a subect of the Emperor of Austria, residing at Prague Zizkow, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Punches for Tambouring Leather Gloves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved punch for punching the leather of gloves to be tamboured with silk thread, pearls, coral, or other materials. Vith the punches hitherto in use only straight rows of holes could be pro duced.

The improved punch of my'invention has for its object to punch the holes in rows of any curved, angular, or other convenient shapeor design.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement more fully pointed out in the claim.

Before describing the details of construction, I desire to say that I am well aware that machines carrying peg-awls have been used for punching holes in shoe-soles. In one instance a wooden stock has been used in connection with a securing-plate, the plate having apertures for the passage of the points of the awls, and such apertures have been shouldered, so as to receive an awl having a cylindrical pointed portion and a head or shouldered port-ion. This form of device would be very objectionable for the purposes of my invention. In another instance a stock' has been provided with peg-awls for punching shoe-soles, and a guide-plate through which the awls pass secured to the stock-plate by bolts insuch a manner that the outer plate will serve as a pressure-plate in drawing the needles from the soles after being punched, springs being interposed between the faceplate and stock. This device is obj eotionable, inasmuch as the needles which I employ are of a very delicate character, difiering materially from peg-awls, and springs, if used, would in many cases cause a lateral strain upon the needles which would impair their usefulness and destroy the design for the tambouring.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is needles on the plate a bottom view of my improved punch. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section thereof, and Fig. 3a vertical longitudinal section thereof.

The stamping-plate a of the punch is made of brass, steel, or other metal, and is some what wider and longer than the design to be produced. It should be of sufficient height to afford a strong hold for the punchingneedles-b, secured within the plate. Small holes are bored through plate a at little dis-' tances from each other along the lines of the design to be produced. Into these holes the punching-needles of a slightly-tapering shape are forced, projecting downward from the lower or working surface of plate a. As these needles must be placed very close to one an other for the purpose of properly punching the glove, they are made headless, or. of uniform taper from end to end. By their tapering form they are prevented from falling out of their seats. The plate a, when provided with the needles b, is firmly secured to a plate a of corresponding size and shape, integral with or secured to the handle (1 of the tool. The plates at and c are connected by screwboltsf. An intermediate plate of steel or hard metal e may beinterposed between the plates at c to prevent the needles from being forced into plate 0, should the latter be formed out of a soft material. l

The plate a may be readily removed from the plate 0 and exchanged for another punching-plate carrying the punching-needles arranged to form a different design.

The operation of punching the holes into the leather by means of this improved punching-tool is the same as hitherto practiced with the ordinary punch. The needles I) might, according to a modification of my invention, be as well secured within the upper plate 0.

In this case the lower plate a would contain needle; holes corresponding to the rows of c to afford passage to the needle-points.

What I claim is- The improved punch for gloves described,-

consisting, essentially, of the plate 0, having the integral handle d and the apertures for the passage of bolts, the perforated plate a, also having apertures to receive said bolts,

the headless tapering needles, as distinguish In testimony whereof I hereunto sign my able from peg-aw1s, the hard-metal plate 6; nam e,in the presence of two subscribing wit- [0 backing said needles and interposed between nesses, this 25th day of May, 1889;

the plates a and c, and the bolts f, passing 5 through both plates a and c and carrying J OSEF MATEJEO.

nuts at their upper ends, whereby the parts Witnesses: may be readily removed and adjusted, sub- F. KORBEL,

sta'ntially as specified. ANs. HERMAN 

